Overview
- The Tamil Nadu government told a Madras High Court bench on Wednesday that it intends to file a curative petition in the Supreme Court to challenge the October 8, 2025 acquittal of the accused in the 2017 Mugalivakkam child rape and murder case.
- The High Court recorded the state’s submission, declined to order the government to act, and closed a public-interest writ filed by advocate S. Venkatesh who had sought a direction to lodge a curative petition.
- The Supreme Court acquitted the accused last October after finding the prosecution had not proved key facts, and the top court dismissed the State’s November 26, 2025 review petition.
- The acquittal rested on specific evidentiary findings by the Supreme Court that CCTV footage, a confessional disclosure and FSL reports were not established in the record.
- A curative petition is an extraordinary and rarely granted remedy that asks the Supreme Court to revisit its final order, and the case also carries an unresolved procedural claim from an RTI that the High Court did not issue a certificate to appeal which, if proved, would raise separate jurisdictional questions.